associated with it. In particular, we distinguish between employment, hours and effort per worker, and allow for adjustment costs … associated with employment changes. We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …-logarithmic form, and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …, recent studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …

will employment be affected? In addressing this question, we focus on the role of on-the-job training. We show that an … insider wage hike reduces recession-time employment but, in the presence of on-the-job training, increases boom …-time employment. Thus on-the-job training can make insider wage hikes less detrimental to average employment (over booms and …

estimates are statistically insignificant. By contrast, a parallel analysis of workers employed fewer than 20 hours per week …. We find no evidence suggesting that the law reduced employment probabilities. …

This paper explores the influence of on-the-job training on the employment effect of firing costs. It shows that on …-the-job training (generating firm specific skills) causes firing costs to have a contractionary influence on average employment (over …

This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing … problems associated with cross-country regressions. This test is based on the hypothesis that employment protection regulations … sectors that are intrinsically more volatile. We also find that employment and value added in the most affected sectors …

granted to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …